courteously

From Middle English curteisly, curteisliche; equivalent to courteous +‎ -ly.

courteously (comparative more courteously, superlative most courteously)

1. In a courteous manner; with obliging civility or condescension; politely.
   • 1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State:

     His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty

   • 1926, Christopher Darlington Morley, Thunder on the Left:

     "Perhaps they eat too much." He said it with the air of one courteously offering a helpful suggestion.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “courteously”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “courteously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.